7 foot cat tree safety question.

Hey everybody, I had a question on a cat tree I bought. I got it from Meijer as they had it on sale for half off (paid $20.00). It is 7 foot tall and goes to my ceiling. The thing I am worried about is that the platforms are pretty small. The only way the cats can get to the top right now is to pull themselves up there. I'm afraid once they get to the top that they will try to jump all the way down to the floor as it is kind of hard for them to get down. Until I have time to build ramps, should they be ok playing on this?

As long as you anchor it to the wall or something they should be fine.

Originally Posted by hissy

As long as you anchor it to the wall or something they should be fine.

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It's anchored to the ceiling so it's sturdy. I was just watching them on it and when they try to go from the top platform down to the middle one, they kind of jump, hit the middle one but it's not wide enough for them to land on so they bounce off of it and land on the floor. It's a soft carpet floor so I hope that braces their jumps better.

It sounds like whoever designed it, does not have cats.

My little sister has a cat that will occasionally make 12 ft. leaps down just for the fun of it... on a bare floor! As long as there's nothing they can fall on, they don't have any health issues... I think it would be okay.

And I agree with Hissy. I actually really like the cat trees that have the spiral steps. Seems like it would be easier!

I have a floor-to ceiling cat tree from Wal-Mart that sounds similar. If you can rotate the platforms a little bit so they form a sort of 'spiral' (hard to describe, sorry) - so that each platform is offset from the one above it, rather than right underneath it, that would give the cats a bit more room to jump from platform to platform.